Certain Samaritans

Esther Pohl Lovejoy was a physician and the founding director of the American Women's Hospitals Service which provided humanitarian and medical aid to the survivors of the Greek Genocide. Dr Lovejoy arrived at Smyrna while the city was still smouldering from the fire that had been lit on September 13, 1922 and which destroyed two thirds of the city.

In Chapter 15, Dr Lovejoy wrote:

In spite of our experience in Erivan in 1920, and at Ismid in 1921, we reckoned with the Turk. We should have known better. The deportations and massacres of the Christian population of Turkey had been going on for years. The Turks had manifestly adopted a radical plan for setting the vexed question of the Christian minorities, by getting rid of these minorities during the confusion of the World War, with its aftermath of lesser wars, and oiling the troubled waters later if necessary.